Gwyneth Rees
| Titles: | Cosmo and the Great Witch Escape, Cosmo and the Secret Spell, Fairy Dust, Fairy Gold, Fairy Rescue, Fairy Secrets, Something Secret, The Butterfly Tiara, The Magic Princess Dress, The Mum Detective, The Mum Hunt, The Twinkling Tutu |
| Category: | Children's |
| Agent: | Caroline Walsh |
| Georgina Ruffhead |
Gwyneth Rees was born in Leicester in 1968, and moved to Glasgow at the age of six. She studied medicine at Glasgow University and qualified as a doctor in 1990. She now works as a child and adolescent consultant psychiatrist before deciding to write full time.
Gwyneth's interest in writing has been constant since her childhood when she was an avid reader of Enid Blyton and wrote her first 'book' in an exercise jotter at the age of ten. (It featured four children trying to solve a mystery about sheep rustlers on the Isle of Skye!) As a medical student she went on writing workshops during the holidays, which fuelled her desire to be published.
Her first children's novel, Something Secret, was published in 1995 and since then she has published several books with Macmillan. These include the Mermaids series for 7-9s; two Cosmo titles for 7-9s; the Mum Hunt series for 9-11s; and, again for 7-9s the hugely popular Fairy series.
Gwyneth lives in London with her partner and their baby daughter.
